It is winter in New York, this morning looking out my window I saw snow on the roof tops. Snow flakes were falling it, was cold and dry. As the day moved on I went outdoors and the snow was turning to slush. Everyone but me was wearing a hat or a cap. My head was cold. People on the street were all busniess. This was not a play day, work needs to get done. This is New York, #newyork

Dissociative fugue, formerly fugue state or psychogenic fugue, is a dissociative disorder and a rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality, and other identifying characteristics of individuality

RSS Lives

RSS is a type of web feed which allows users and applications to access updates to online content in a standardized, computer-readable format. These feeds can, for example, allow a user to keep track of many different websites in a single news aggregator. - wikipedia

RSS was created around 1999, at that time I was in the Network Technologies program at North Seattle Community College. I didn't start using RSS myself till later. I used a variety of rss readers, the one that stuck with me the longest was Fever 1.39 . To use Fever you need a web server and a version of SQL I have access to both those things so in 2010 I started using Fever to aggregate all the sites I wanted to follow. Over the years this list has changed as sites disappear and as I became interested in other things. Fever was created by Shaun Inman he stopped supporting it in 2016 .

Another web service I started using around 2010 was Pinboard It is a service that lets you store links (url) to web pages you want to remember and return to. Pinboard has many good features one of which is generating an RSS feed from your list of links. Here is a feed of my links keep in mind you need to open this link in an RSS reader, its format is designed for a machine to read not a human. My account is public at Pinboard you can review all the link I have save, I am sure a physiatrist could make hay out of the list.

Here is a stunning, contemplative film about trees. 40 minutes of following "a group of skiers, snowboarders, scientists and healers to the birch forests of Japan, the red cedars of British Columbia and the bristlecones of Nevada, as they explore an ancient story written in rings." If you need extra incentive, 27 minutes in we get the "wood wide web" - the mycelial network!

One: I have started reading this book numerous times. Sometimes I open it at random and start the content is in small components like a assemblage of notes.

Two: Ricardo Reis was one of the 70+ heteronyms used by Fernando Pessoa, Saramago places both Reis and Pessoa in his novel as main characters. This choice is research into two of Lisbon's greatest authors and into life in Portugal in the 1930's.

Three: The Walk extols the virtues of walking without clear purpose, in the manner of a Flaneur. I m interested in this practice and this ook is considered research.

Four: Zuboff's new book is a dense treatise on modern "Stack" capitalism and the surveillance systems currently built into the commercial internet. Zuboff has her detractors but the threat she discuses is very real.

Shenzhen has been an important experiment for the Chinese since 1980 when it was designated a "Special Economic Zone". It was created to be an experimental place for the practice of market capitalism within a community guided by the ideals of "socialism with Chinese characteristics"

Shenzhen is the gateway between mainland China and Hongkong. The Chinese government hoped Shenzhen would become the "silicon valley" of China, it has and it seems to have surpassed the American silicon valley.

Here is a Bloomberg video that highlights some of the more dystopian aspects of Shenzhens development. I must say it looks shiny and clean.

"Fernando Pessoa is an infinte solar system, made up of clusters of plaanets near and far, many of them still unexplored, or unknown. His life was a continuous self-dividing into new worlds, which he experiences as a frustrating inability to complete his works. In an autobiographical text written in English he confessed: